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The INFAMOUS Newport aggregate coal. I had an 18" burning red clinker standing staight up from my EFM 700's rotating pot. In between clinkers, it would produce more ash than possible, and mostly go out. The ash was figured to be over 50% several times. I leveled half the bottom of my driveway in a couple weeks time.

i;ve burned blashack,kimmels,reading no problems with any of them all good.my supplier dried up.bought some rice from earth and fire supply in tomoqua,the worst.very little heat output.the ash content is UNBELEIVABLE,every 2 to 2.5 bags a full ashcan.when its cold, 24 hours.double the ash i ever got.

When I first started burning coal I got a bulk delivery from a local dealer, it was unburnable. I still have a little bit of it. Dave Vig II has a photo of a piece I gave him...had it in his stove for three days and it still retained it's shape. Never bought from them again.

I have honestly never gotten a bad load...but the load I got last year had a handful of nut coal mixed in, and one piece that was rather large... The coal itself was excellent, so I think it averaged out.

Kimmel's bagged for me, about 5-6 years ago. Mud balls, rocks, BOULDERS, wire, plastic, netting, tree branches, root systems .... all in a 50lb. bag! What a mess. I don't like paying for crap that don't burn, so I wasn't too happy. The first year I burned was the worst. Plus, the amount of ash limited me to 12-15 hour max. burn times. Lighting it off gave smoke with a bituminous smell at first. Plenty of heat, but everything else about it totally sucked.

Blaschak back in '09 was a dream come true - powdery ash, no unburnable junk, with instant 24 hour burn times or longer. The past couple seasons I ran into camouflaged rocks that jammed my grates wide open at just about every shakedown. I was ready to take a sledgehammer to my stove! SOOO AGGRAVATING!! I bent the crap out of my shaker handle from kicking it. Was hit or miss - sometimes I could bust it free ... and other times (usually at midnight when I wanted to SLEEP) I'd have to dump the fire and start from scratch. Was getting sick and tire of that crap! Must've burned 4 tons of it like that. I was at the end of my rope with the hand fired before the season even started. Luckily towards the end of that batch, that problem went away.

This year is my first with at stoker. So far I've only run into a few small pieces of wood, and 3 stove coal sized chunks mixed into a few bags out of 2.26 tons of their rice. Those were easy enough to smash into pea/rice size to burn. Glad I caught them before they did any damage to the stoker motor. They were so big that they just spun around endlessly on top of the paddle. Night and day difference in effort over running the hand fired though. Don't miss shaking a fire one bit!

Thats not really a fair question almost any breaker I've bought from for an extended period of time has had a bad run or so. Most catch it from a customer complaint or the area they are stripping is done and they move on. Coal is a raw material when it is sold and although sorted and washed it is subject to nature it is not sent to a refinery to make a standardized product. So you take the good with the bad,, UAE Harmony for all its heat & low ash was the filthiest most labor intensive coal I ever burned the bin constantly needed the fines removed I even had to build a screener for the coal when the bin got low and the delivery guy had a screening rig for his chute it was that bad. Ive been burning coal 20+ years and live where it comes from and plan to continue. I could go on and on about the ups and downs of breakers Mines stripping operations delivery guys and brokers. I will say this anybody buying bulk in quantity over 2 tons or bagged over a pallet full has Big Balls.